Woc Local Recruitment And More Dark Fortresses

🛡️ WoC: Local Recruitment + More Dark Fortresses – by Katsuko
Local Recruitment • Dark Fortress Expansion • Building Tweaks

❗ Actively Developed
This mod is under active development and will be expanded with new solutions and mechanics that meaningfully change WoC gameplay over time.

🔥 What This Mod Does

This mod restores an old (disabled) Local Recruitment option for Warriors of Chaos and expands the Dark Fortress system to additional major settlements.

You can now recruit WoC units directly from Dark Fortress building chains, while still keeping Warband upgrades.

✅ Features

🪓 Local Recruitment Restored (WoC)
• Recruit WoC units from Dark Fortress buildings
• Works alongside Warband (less UI clutter, great for custom WoC units)

🏰 More Dark Fortresses
• More major settlements can function as Dark Fortresses
• Building-chain permissions adjusted where required (special templates included)

🏗️ Buildings & Bonuses Tweaks
• Altars provide stronger bonuses and additional recruitment options
• Dark Fortress buildings gain small bonuses to growth/development and unit recruitment

🧿 Recruitment by Legendary Lord

👑 Archaon & Be’lakor
• Full recruitment: Khorne / Tzeentch / Nurgle / Slaanesh + WoC
• Now also includes the full Norsca roster

🩸 Valkia
• Khorne + WoC
• Also gains access to a few Norsca units

🌀 Vilitch
• Tzeentch + WoC
• Also gains access to a few Norsca units

⚡ Kholek
• WoC (vanilla Chaos)
• Now also includes Beastmen units

🪰 Festus
• Nurgle + WoC
• Also gains access to a few Norsca units

💜 Azazel & Sigvald
• Slaanesh + WoC
• Also gain access to a few Norsca units

📌 Important

🤖 AI Uses Local Recruitment Too
• The AI also benefits from Local Recruitment (if it follows the same recruiting rules as the player).

🔁 Altar Reversion in Some Locations
• Some settlements may still show a possibility to revert back to an Altar instead of a Dark Fortress.
This is caused by special/unique settlement templates/chains that cannot always be fully replaced without breaking other mechanics.

⚖️ Balance Notes

⚔️ Using Local Recruitment + Warband upgrades can make WoC stronger earlier than vanilla.

📌 Load order may matter when using major settlement or recruitment overhauls.

🛑 Known Issues

🃏 Duplicate Unit Cards
• You may sometimes see duplicate unit cards in the building browser.
This is usually a Warband-related visual side effect (some cards are tied to multiple recruitment sources).

💾 Existing Saves
• If a settlement was captured before enabling the mod, you may need to abandon/recapture it or start a new campaign for chains to refresh correctly.

🧠 Roadmap

🚀 This mod will be expanded with:
• more Dark Fortress locations
• additional WoC campaign tweaks
• new mechanics and interesting solutions that meaningfully change gameplay

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